Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Ireland and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ken Boothe to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eli Mardock,
Black Bananas,
Parry Music,
Section 25,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Moebius,
Faraquet,
John Cale,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yazoo,
Joy Division,
Lungfish,
R.M.O.,
Technova,
The Smoke,
The Techniques,
Lou Reed,
Essential Logic,
Shuggie Otis,
Guru Guru,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Oblivians,
Liliput,
Jeff Lynne,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Divine Comedy,
EPMD,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
10cc,
Tubeway Army,
Lou Christie,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Motions,
The Last Poets,
Animal Collective,
Unwound,
Girls At Our Best!,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Joensuu 1685,
Aaron Thompson,
Eurythmics,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Blossom Toes,
Surgeon,
Grandmaster Flash,
Prince Buster,
Roxette,
Steve Hackett,
The Standells,
Gang Gang Dance,
Darondo,
Jacques Brel,
Cybotron,
Outsiders,
Quadrant,
Q and Not U,
Josef K,
Inner City,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.